Mini-Conference on Politics in Post-industrial Societies I: Women, Gender, Labor Markets and Political Structures

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Part of Mini-Conference

• Mini-Conference on Politics in Post-industrial Societies

Session Description

Mini-conference "Changing Cleavages, New Grievances: Politics in Post-Industrial Societies"

The first panel examines how changes in women’s representation and status in labor markets and political structures affect electoral choices and preferences. Meguid et al explore how women’s increasing substantive and descriptive representation affects gender differences in partisanship and vote choices; Breyer interrogates the conditions under which these changes in women’s representation fuel societal discontent and political backlash. Van Staalduinen and Zollinger examine how women’s perceptions of their status, occupational risk, and upward mobility influence electoral choices and policy preferences. Acquarone studies diversity in descriptive representation and party strategies.

Sub Unit

• Division 11: Comparative Politics

Individual Presentations

• Voter Reactions to Trajectories of Women’s Representation - Magdalena Breyer, University of Basel

• The Impact of Women’s Representation on Gender Differences in Party Support - Bonnie M. Meguid, University of Rochester; Miki Caul Kittilson, Arizona State University; Hilde Roza Coffe, University of Bath; Ana Catalano Weeks, University of Bath

• Upward Mobility and Gender in the Knowledge Economy - Briitta van Staalduinen, University of Konstanz

• Strategically Inclusive Parties and Diversity of Descriptive Representation - Iris Acquarone, Arizona State University

Chair

• Ruth Dassonneville KU Leuven

Discussant

• Elisabeth Ivarsflaten University of Bergen